HP ILO set from ansible (no OS installed)

[Benny Kusman]

Hi,

has anyone implemented setting up HP ILO using ansible, when the server has no OS yet ?

if the server has been installed and has hponcfg command, there is ansible module for it.

But wondering, if anyone has tried to setup the server in the ilo using ansible (just simply specifying the ilo hostname, userid/password, port)

Thanks

[Dave H]

Hi Benny,

There are a couple of development modules in the ansible docs, e.g. https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/modules/hpilo_boot_module.html, but I have not used them.

I use the python package from http://seveas.github.io/python-hpilo to expose a command line interface and use an example playbook like the following. You have to extract data from the output of the cli but it's fairly straightforward and very useful.

ansible-playbook -i "localhost," -c local playbook.yml

---

- hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: false

  vars:

    ilo_host: "192.168.0.10"  # IP address / hostname of the iLO interface
    ilo_user: "xxxxx"         # username for the user to log into the iLO
    ilo_password: "xxxxxx"    # fetch from vault or other secret storage
    hpilo_cli_cmd: "hpilo_cli {{ ilo_host }} --json --login='{{ ilo_user }}' --password='{{ ilo_password }}'"

  tasks:

  - name: Get current power status
    command: "{{ hpilo_cli_cmd }} get_host_power_status"
    register: hpilo_cli_get_host_power_status
 
  - name: Record power status
    set_fact:
      power_status: "{% if 'ON' in hpilo_cli_get_host_power_status.stdout %}ON{% else %}OFF{% endif %}"

  - name: Power on server - if it is powered down
    command: "{{hpilo_cli_cmd}} press_pwr_btn"
    when: power_status != "ON"

  - name: Reboot server - if it is powered up
    command: "{{hpilo_cli_cmd}} cold_boot_server"
    when: power_status == "ON"

Hope that helps.

Dave

[Amarjeet Raja]

Hi Benny,

As far as I know, Ansible doesn't have any modules which can do inital configuration of an ILO. However, You can automate the ILO configuration using HP Oneview along with ansible.  You can find the details in this url : https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/v2/getpdf.aspx/4AA6-6348ENW.pdf

Regards,

Amarjeet

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[Benny Kusman]

Hi Dave and  Amarjeet,

Thanks for the feedback.

i will give it a try!

Many thanks!

[Benny Kusman]

Hi  Dave,

So i got this stupid question, where is the library of to put this hpilo ?

i was looking at https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/7633, but couldnt find the solution.

Thank you

[Dave H]

It's a python library. Create a new virtualenv, activate it, install ansible and python-hpilo and you should be good to run your playbook

virtualenv venv
. venv/bin/activate
pip install ansible python-hpilo

ansible-playbook -i "localhost," -c local playbook.yml

[Sosys]

Hi Dave,

thanks!

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